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Well? All you "blacks can't be racists because blacks don't have power" people. Guess what? People with enhanced skin melanin levels are in positions of power, now. And guess what? Turns out that people with high melanin skin content are just as prone to be bigoted--RACIST--as anybody else.

Turns out that the "racism is power" bullshit was just that--bullshit, intended to obfuscate and confuse the issue, intended to make "whitey" guilty, because everybody knew that the "crackers" would always be the ones with the power.

Oops. A bunch of white folk up and voted for the black man, didn't they?

Quite a few of them did it because they thought that then--then--they might shed just a bit of that horrible guilt that's been laid on them for what happened a century and a half ago, if not longer. They did it because they were supposed to. It was a kind of reparation. An offering of peace between the races.

Peace offering not accepted, apparently, at least by some.

Now we know. Now we know that if you're walking around judging people by nothing but their skin color, then you are a racist. Regardless of what color skin you happen to have, you are a racist.

Period.

"Power" ain't got nothing to do with it. It's all about simple, tribalist bigotry--"us" versus "them," on the most basic level. It's about getting some for "us," and taking it from "them."

Isn't it, Ms. Sherrod?